Sior's PFS Destiny of the Sands Part II : Race to Seeker's Folly (High-tier) (Inactive)

Game Master Sior

That is a miss, I'm afraid. Even with the reveal weakness which I forgot to mention in the update.

Turning to look at the Ulfens, you find nothing but footprints. Down the way, you hear them shouting and screaming, something along the lines of they "never signed up for this!"

Elena's up! Unless she can unfascinate someone? Though you're probably more worried about the allip right here, eh?

Totally forgot that it's blinded, so the snowball hits!

Save: 1d20 ⇒ 20

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In the fascinated description it mentions; A fascinated creature's ally may shake it free of the spell as a standard action. If that works I'd like to use in on Ryster since I saw him prepare a "special" bullet to use against the creature..which will most likely be more effective then what I could do against it. It doesn't mention it provokes..so I'm assuming I can do it while standing next to the allip, and it's blind anyway.

"Hey! Shake it off! Come on people!" Says Elena as she shakes Ryster back and forth while slapping him open palmed across the face.

Before she takes a step away from the incorporeal creature.

Will go with it.

Elena shakes Ryster free of the allure of the mindless babbling as the allip blinks several times to clear its vision. Hurray 1 round blindness...

Ryster, you're back in the game! Please roll a DC 16 Will save vs the babblings or be fascinated again. =\

I'm gonna roll again too since Roland used his standard action to smack me as well.

Will Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

Guilford stirs for a moment when Roland hits him, then the stupified expression returns to his face.

Anyone who can use magic missile is free to grab the wand out of my hand!

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Heh!

Folio Reroll: 1d20 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 3 = 21

Ryster darts southeast, trying to avoid attacks, while looking for a clear shot! Spinning on his heal, he fires his musket!

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

RTA, PBS: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 9 + 1 = 30
Damage: 1d12 + 1 + 1 + 2d4 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 1 + (2, 4) = 14

Oh yeah, come on!

Crit Confirm, RTA, PBS: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 9 + 1 = 13
Crit Damage: 3d12 + 3 + 3 + 2d4 ⇒ (5, 5, 11) + 3 + 3 + (4, 1) = 32 Sad trombone.....

Roland is still fascinated, too. There was no additional save for its advance.

Oh, right. Well, I failed my roll too, so no harm done!

Ryster tries to move past the allip, but it still reacts swiftly enough to take a swipe at him.

AoO: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 vs Touch AC
1d4 ⇒ 4 Wisdom damage

The mound of flesh tries as well.

AoO: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 2 = 17
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 Just barely, hahaha.

Ryster's aim is almost as impeccable as can be, and he still deals a good wound on the ghostly presence.

Wounded, the allip casts a spell and seems to regain some of its essence.
2d8 + 4 ⇒ (6, 6) + 4 = 16

The mound of meat, meanwhile, has some lovely fleshies to swing his great big arms at.

Slam on Ouroboreia: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Slam on Guilford: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

And finally, the allip once again floats over to Elena and swings an incorporeal hand at her.
Touch: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 vs Touch AC
1d4 ⇒ 3 Wisdom damage

Party up! Because he was attacked, Guilford is no longer fascinated, but must make a DC 16 Will save vs the babble at the start of his turn or be fascinated again.

Also, apologies for the longer posts this combat. Dual-initiative increases the amount of text and rolling what needs doing.

Ouroboreia takes a step back and emits an unbearable sound with a shrill voice - luckily, only the allip seems to be able to hear it.

Casting Ear-Piercing Scream on the allip. Fort DC 16 halves the sonic damage and negates the dazed condition.
Sonic damage: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

The creature saves and is not dazed though it wouldn't have been dazed anyway. Undead traits.

Will save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Guilford remains transfixed by the babbling allip.

Cursing, Ryster takes a step back, reloads and fires at the golem, then grabs a flask of acid from his bandolier.

RTA, PBS: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 1 = 14
Damage: 1d12 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 = 5

Elena carefully steps away from the allip (5ft step) and activates her judgement (choosing Justice: a +1 sacred bonus on all attack rolls for now) and pulls out a bottle of holy water which she readies to pour over the creature if it get's next to her

Readied attack to hit touch AC Allip: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 1 = 16
Damage if hit: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5

Guilford is fascinated again for 1d4 ⇒ 4 rounds until the end of this round (See below)

Ryster, sadly, misses the allip once more.

Suddenly, a burst of red energy erupts from the pouch containing the gem fragments.

2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9
Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Injured by the energy, the allip moves forward towards Elena, giving her a chance to dump the holy water into its being.

It then tries to cast a spell.
Concentration: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11 DC 21
Wah...

The monster to the south continues to swing at Guilford twice.

Slam: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Slam: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Confirmation: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

The allip then tries to cast another spell!
Concentration: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19 DC 19

It goes off, empowering its hand which reaches for Elena.

Touch: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Shakes head...

Party up! Guilford needs another DC 16 Will save vs the Babbling.

Roland is still fascinated, right? Just let me know if/when he can resist or snaps out.

Cursing, Ryster takes a step back, reloads and fires at the golem, then grabs a flask of acid from his bandolier.

[dice=RTA, PBS]1d20+9+1
[dice=Damage]1d12+1+1

Ryster fired at the golem that last time.

Oh! Whoops! Yes, that hits it, then.

Roland, two more rounds of fascination unless you're attacked or shaken out. Then it's another will save to keep from being fascinated again.

Finally, everyone check the Discussion forum.

Ryster infuses the acid into his ammunition and fires at the golem again.

RTA, PBS: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 1 = 11
Damage: 1d12 + 1 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (9) + 1 + 1 + (3) = 14

Cursing as his gun jams, he grits his teeth and quickly clears the jam and reloads.

Will Save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Terribly wounded, Guilford snaps out of the foul creature's babbling influence.

He steps back and calls upon the power of his bonded item and sends a scorching ray at the filthy beast that hit him.

RTA: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Damage: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 5, 1) = 12

The flaming ray seems to shy away from the construct and has no effect!

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"Wow zhis is zuch a friendly creature. It looks like it wants to give us all zee hugs."

We didn't know for sure it was a construct, did we? Stupid magic immunities..

With mage armor up I "only" took the crit for 18 damage. 14 con and Toughness feels pretty good right now, actually.

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No knowledge checks were rolled when it arrived. And glad to hear mage armour came in handy!

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Ouroboreia shoots an arcane missile at the allip from her wand.

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Elena seeing she's the preferred target for this thing and can't effect it herself that much goes fully on the defensive to try to give the others time to deal with it, while stepping next to Mikaere

Full defense, switching judgement to protection; for a +4 dodge bonus to AC, combined with the +2 deflection bonus from protection vs evil and a +1 sacred bonus to AC that gives me a AC of 17 vs Evil touch attacks or 24 vs normal Evil AC attacks (and an extra +1 on saves for being next to a party member, for a +2 extra on all my saves - including the protection vs evil)

The magic missile strikes the allip. It seems to be acting slowly, as if it is concentrating on keeping its essence on this plane.

Elena scoots closer to Mikhaere.

The allip continues to babble on and on about this, that, and the other, while it swings its charged hand at Elena.
Touch w/ spell: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 + Surge: 1d6 ⇒ 2
It misses even as it taps into some mythic source. (Was worth a shot!)

Meanwhile, the golem turns towards the one who last hurt his master; Ouroboreia.

Slam: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Slam: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

The allip then tries one more time to swipe at Elena.
Touch w/ spell: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
DC 16 will save or your leg will bend at an odd angle, decreasing your Dex by 2

Party up! One more round of fascination for Roland and Mikhaere!

RTA, PBS: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 9 + 1 = 26
Damage: 1d12 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 = 4

Ryster fires at the golem again, reloads, then pulls a holy water from his bandolier and steps back five feet.

Will save: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 1 + 2 = 16

Elena is just barely able to will her leg to not bend in an unnatural angle. She takes another careful step to surround herself by more allies (5ft step to get a higher bonus on saves from my teamwork feat), then going full defense again and hope that the allip will miss again.

Ouroboreia takes a step back and casts glitterdust at the construct, hoping to blind him.

Glitterdust doesn't allow SR, so it should work on a golem. Will DC 18 to resist.

Ryster fires another bullet into the golem, blasting away bits of flesh from its odd macabre form.

Elena skirts around the allip the best that she can.

Will: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9 Won't...
The golem clutches at its eyes against the glitterdust summoned by Ouroboreia.

Guilford is up!

Guilford sends a magic missile at the allip.

Wand MM: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

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And with a final burst of magic, the allip fades from existence with a howl! Its energy dissipated, the golem falls into a heap of rotting flesh.

Out of combat!

All that remains is to send word to Amenopheus on what you have found pertaining to the ruby and the bodies.

Roland blinks a few times....

"What...what zhe happened to me? Is everyone ok? What about zhe zhree newcomers? What do zhey want?"

Once she's assured that the grave robbers have fled for good, Ouroboreia will return to the water elemental and use the scroll to communicate with it, negotiating the items it guards. Then she will take some time to study the sarcophagus more closely, possibly using it to learn more about this place, the jeweled sages, and the restless spirit that inhabited the tomb. Finally the wizardess will activate the stone to report to Amenopheus their breakthrough.

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Returning to the elemental, it specifically states that it is there to protect the items against those who would take it, or who would break into the library without proving their worth by solving the puzzles. It challenges you saying if you want the items, you'll have to take them from it.

Communicating with the inhabitant of the sarcophagus using the powers of the tomb, the speaker is discovered to be a scholar from Ancient Osirion. He is able to answer most questions about the Song Pharaoh and about repairing magical items, but has no knowledge of this place nor the spiritual inhabitants.

Reporting to Amenopheus your findings, the sending stone is silent for a moment before the former sage's voice resonates through it. I see. Very well. Hold there, Pathfinders. I shall join you shortly.

After about an hour, the former Sage arrives at the ruins. He listens to all that has transpired and of the methods found for repairing the stone as he walks with you back to the area in which you found the broken gem. Speaking of which, he there asks you for the stone, at which point he is surprised to feel the faint magic contained within. Going up to the table upon which it was found, the Sage holds his hand over the gem and chants.

At his words, one of the corpses around the table moves and seems to revert in form to a time when she was alive and well. She looks at Amenopheus and bows in gratitude. Turning to you, she speaks in a voice soft and low as though echoes down the corridors of centuries.

"My thanks to you, adventurers, for putting my colleague's spirit to rest. It was he who became possessed by some unknown force, killed myself and our friend before turning his blade against himself. Through all these years I have kept a limited degree of awareness from within the gem.

"For many years we sat undisturbed from outside forces until shortly before your arrival. A man came in and collected the other two gems. When the thief handled one of my shards, I was able to read his thoughts before he discarded the fragment and fled. The thief is a man named Kafar, who had intentions of delivering the jewels to the Diamond Sage in a region known as the Pillars of the Sun. It is there that we Jeweled Sages’ built our sanctum, but it strikes both me as odd that the Diamond Sage would collect the gems there instead of finding new candidates to become sages elsewhere in Osirion."

Amenopheus nods, voicing his own concern that the Diamond Sage’s actions are not typical for the order, and he is dismayed that the jewels may be in the hands of known enemies of the Pathfinder Society.

Sharing her fellow sage’s concern, the Ruby Sage turns to you. "If you would chase down this thief Kafar, reclaim the stolen jewels, and find the Diamond Sage to learn what she intends, I shall give you what power I can to aid you."

A wave of energy and power emanates from the gem, instilling you all with power. Immediately after, the Sage's corpse slumps and returns to its desiccated form.

Amenopheus turns to you. "This is a rare gift and a dire need. However, I know some of you may not be strong enough to see this to the end. Gather your resources and your strength quickly, agents, then find me to continue this quest. Before I leave, though, if any of you are suffering from afflictions of this place, I can take care of one of those for you."

Now it is with utmost impatience that Amenopheus urges you to complete your mission to find where the other gems have been taken. But that, of course, is another scenario entirely.

That concludes Destiny of the Sands Part II!
I will be getting Chronicle sheets to you tonight. Be prepared. There are THREE sheets for this scenario.

Ouroboreia bows to both sages in deference and respect. "We will be worthy of your trust, and shall recover the jewels. What should we do about the diamond sage if we meet him? " she inquires.

Thanks for this amazing scenario! It is rare to find one where you actually are an archaeologist! About part 3,can we wait until next week before we start, please? I'm on holiday away from home and am unable to download /print the CSs, and won't be able to level Ouro properly (she reaches 5th level).

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Indeed, we can hold on a tick. This will probably be a busy week for myself as well. Enjoy your trip.

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Just checking..if we want to challenge the elemental to take the items..can we? Not going to rush in by myself, but if others want to, I'd be willing to join in the fight. After all, we'd just been able to defeat an Allip and a golem..I think we can take an elemental ;)

Thanks! I'll be back on July 13th,and should be able to do the levelling and CS business that day. By the way, any news of Mikahere?

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Thanks GM!

Mik has a PC in one of my games as well, and I haven't heard from the player.

Guilford smiles as his companions offer their support to Amenopheus.

"It is an honor to serve a scholar of your talents, sir. I vow to do all that us within my humble power to see this through."

Thanks for running again GM! I had a good time with this too, even if I lost track a couple of times. My GM game just ended too, so I'm going to use that chronicle to get Gil to 5th level as well.

I'm playing in a game where Alice (Mikhaere) is GM. She just got through a crazy exam cycle and was dealing with some personal matters regarding her relationship. But she got back to our game, so I wouldn't b surprised to see her turn back up here once things are less stressful for her IRL

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Thanks for running this. Great series and group so far. Roland will be 4th level for the next part.

Just checking..if we want to challenge the elemental to take the items..can we? Not going to rush in by myself, but if others want to, I'd be willing to join in the fight. After all, we'd just been able to defeat an Allip and a golem..I think we can take an elemental ;)

You CAN if you like, don't know whether you SHOULD. It seems typical of season 5 scenarios to have at least one combat more difficult than the BBEG. Just sayin'... ;-)

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Do we lose gold earned if we leave it alone? If so, we probably should attempt to fight it. It would be a shame that no means of bypassing the fight peacefully and still get full gold for it would exist... This actually encourages the murderhobo demeanor.

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No, you don't miss out. You get rewards for bypassing fights as well.

Ouroboreia bows to both sages in deference and respect. "We will be worthy of your trust, and shall recover the jewels. What should we do about the diamond sage if we meet him? " she inquires.

"I am sure you will be able to deal with the situation when it arrives. In the meanwhile, I must look into this supposed sanctum. Let us return to Eto. There you may rest and take your leave" and provide a hook for the next adventure =P